Races

[Vòldor]

Ops... sorry Lasheron, sometimes I miss that the italian's abbreviation are a little bit different from the rest of the world one... PG it's like to say character or better, your character, it's something like PC, Playing Character, but referred to yourself... sorry again :P

[Maltyrius]

Originally Posted by Vòldor

Nihilum's locks have choosen mainly UD; could be this the answer?

Blood Elves did not exist when the core raiders of Nihilum rolled their Warlocks - Blood elves have only existed since 1/16/07.

To your main point: it's hard to argue with the Undead racials - they are sweet. And, undead Warlocks just make sense in some weird, horror-fantasy way.

[Ekojin]

Originally Posted by Pzykotic

UndeadThe Sin'Dorei ("Blood Elves")

• Arcane Affinity - 10 point bonus to enchanting skill
• Mana Tap - Activate to reduce target's mana by (50 + Level) and charge you with arcane energy for 10 min. This effect stacks up to 3 times. 30 yd range - Instant - 30 sec cooldown.
• Arcane Torrent - Activate to silence all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds. In addition, you gain 10 energy or (5 + Level) mana for each charge of Mana Tap currently affecting you.

Please Note that Arcane Torrent is a very close range effect, of 15 yards..and silences for 2secs. It's not use as much by itself as it is with a group full of BEs doing AT(Arcane Torrent) one after another ...works beautifully if carefully planned right before a spell hits. As we all know Warlocks are about timing and AT can teach ya how to hone that skill.

All in all BE isn't bad if you wanna look hawt and summon demons. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Meets Lord of the Rings? *shrug*

Just some imput

[Shadowtibbs]

I think that UD locks are great, but I had trouble leveling at first because of a lack of mana. I have a BE now and it's great, but I DO miss cannibalize. Orcs get blood fury but now with 2.3 that an hurt certain locks because Drain Life and Siphon Life are now affected by the 50% loss from healing effects...

I've never played alliance so I can't say anything about them.

[Pernicious]

It is often over looked, but i want to speak about the benefits of the human trait, Perception.

I cannot express how often this trait has saved my bacon on my alliance warlock. If your looking for something to aid with rogues, I'd have to say perception should be high on the list, In battlegrounds / Arena, this skill has allowed me to see and dot rogues far quicker than they have been able to get to me. I often find that i have 2-3 seconds before they're on me, this gives me time to Death Coil, Instant Howl of Terror, and get a few dots on em. 2-3 seconds can make or break a fight.

[Vòldor]

Originally Posted by Maltyrius

Blood Elves did not exist when the core raiders of Nihilum rolled their Warlocks - Blood elves have only existed since 1/16/07.

Yesterday I was talking about this with a member of my guild, she is a 70 UD Mage, and the discussion was approximately like so:

"... there are so many UD Lock mainly because ususally people are not so crazy like to to buy WoW + BC in one shot, for this reason with the standard game if you want to be a lock the only answer can be one..."

But cause I don't want to think that UD are overrated only for this I'm asking, somebody, just for fun, has rolled up both races UD and BE as lock class and can really say... ok yes UD are better?

Of course more or less you have just replied to this question, but I'd like to go more deep in the debate if you like.

Anu belore dela'na... Selama ashal'anore

[al234]

I agree with Pernicious, Human Perception is an excellent racial, especially for a warlock as we hate Rouges, saves me almost everytime, DAMN ROUGES :D

Rouges is the only class iv got problems with if theyr played good, prob hunters to after the patch, GRRRRR!!!

[Poxus]

I'll put my two cents in here on this.

If you want to make a Warlock, DO NOT worry about racials. The look of your Warlock will make a bigger difference, in my opinion, on how long you play a Warlock over racials.

MY first Warlock was Undead, best caster animations in the game. Then I tried Human, Orc, Blood Elf, Gnome...nothing came close to LOOKING as cool as you can as Undead. I mean come on, you get to rock out while you are killing stuff and casting, what's better than that?

Need more proof? Here is a link to the best Warlock among all of us

[Vòldor]

Yes ok, I can agree with you, this racial protect you till level 42, but for me, as I said, it is useless cause because for several reason I have to choose the horde... so... for this reason I tried to focus my argue only on UD and BE

[postalpanzer]

My main is a level 60 BE lock I almost never use his racials I wish I had made an Orc I like their racials for warlock alot.

I have a 29 BE paladin and I use the racials all the time. Mainly the paladin doesn't have anything else to do but use his racial at range. So those racials work alot better for the pally